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To separate
What does it mean to secede ?
100
President Abraham Lincoln
Who was the leader of the North ?
100
Fort Sumter
Where did the Civil War begin ?
100
Emancipation Proclamation was issued
What happened on January 1, 1863 ?
100
State Rights and the issue of slavery
What were the two main causes of the Civil War ?
200
laws that states can make no federal government laws
What are state rights ?
200
Jefferson Davis
Who was the leader of the South ?
200
Gettysburg, PA
Where did the South finally realize they could not defeat the North?
200
1861-1865
What were the years of the Civil War ?
200
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860
Why did South Carolina seceed from the Union ?
300
Federal or Union
What is another name for the North ?
300
General Robert E. Lee
Who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant April 1865
300
Bull Run; 25 miles from DC
Where was the first battle of the Civil War ?
300
August 1862
What month and years was the battle of Antietam ?
300
Confederates, federal
___________ took over Fort Sumter, which was a ________ fort.
400
The South
What is the Confederate ?
400
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
Who were the Confederate generals ?
400
In the North
Where were factories and railroads an advantage ?
400
The Trent Affair
Britain decided that they wanted to remain neutral. In 1861, what event tested that neutrality ?
400
The issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation
What made slavery the focus of the war ?
500
Citizens within the same country are fighting each other
What is the Civil War
500
John Wilkes Booth
Who assassinated President Lincoln ?
500
Maryland
In what state was the battle of Antietam ?
500
To improve sanitary conditions for soldiers
What was the purpose of the U.S. Sanitray Comission ?
500
Key victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg
What helped wear down the Union ?